ABDUL’S TOP TEN (MY APOLOGIES TO DAVID LETTERMAN)
Here is my list of the top ten local news items that had the biggest impact on our lives. Feel free to add your own.
10. Indianapolis Colts win Super Bowl. Everyone forgets about the taxpayer subsidy of the new stadium for 24 hours.
9. IMPD forgets to swear-in its rank and file officers during a ceremony at the end of the year and a drunk driving defendant walks, for now. We’re still waiting for the Indiana Supreme Court to come back with a ruling in the case.
8. Governor Mitch Daniels tries to privatize the lottery to pay for college education for Hoosiers, lawmakers decide not to gamble on it.
7. Two Warren Township middle school students engage in a sex act in the classroom and some how this becomes the news media’s fault?
6. Titanic Captain E.J. Smith looks down from heaven at the Marion County May Primary election and says, “that’s gotta hurt!”
5. Several Presidential candidates make stops in Indianapolis. They withdraw money from the political ATMs, take off leaving the receipts on the ground.
4. Marion County Democrats refuse to throw Council President Monroe Gray under the bus, but that doesn’t stop him from returning the favor and Republicans take over the Council.
3. Congresswoman Julia Carson passes away. Family Feud host John O’Hurley will chair the special caucus to nominate her replacement.
2. This summer’s property tax crisis and subsequent taxpayer revolt. Sales of torches and pitchforks skyrocket. Politicians run like rats out of an aqueduct.
1. Political unknown Greg Ballard becomes the Mayor of Indianapolis. St. Jude Thaddeus (The Patron Saint of lost causes) gives him a thumbs up.
This will be my last post of the year. I have to go be a comedian on New Year’s Eve before coming back Tuesday morning to MC the Inauguration. I want to thank all of you for reading Indiana Barrister and a special thanks to Kevin, who works behind the scenes to keep this forum going.
Happy New Year, see you in 2008.
